Racial Bias in Criminal Records

ObjectivesGovernment officials use criminal records as proxies for past conduct to decide who and how to investigate, arrest, charge, and punish. But those records may be racially biased measures of individual behavior. This paper develops a theoretical definition of bias in criminal records in term...

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Main Author: Grunwald, Ben (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2024, Volume: 40, Issue: 3, Pages: 489-531
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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